Kids...

I recently purchased a 1000w 7.1 Onkyo receiver and speakers. It came with a 10in. sub that puts out a very respectable amount of bass.

Well, I noticed recently that when bass became particularly stong, the box rattled. I figured something had come loose.

I turned it upside down and stuck my hand inside the port.


I turned up an inventory of 2 jumbo legos, 6 crayons, a wallet size photo, and one of those booger sucker thingies.


Kids....

 

Sorry... my wife and I don't have children yet, and I know this is going to doom me to having children that terrorize me and my wife like my twin brother and I did to my parents, but...

BWAHAHAHA!!!

Kids are funny, as long they are being funny to someone else

 

sounds like you need to keep kodo away from your sub na really just put like a screen over the hole (you know the type of screen i am talking about the kind like on the windows of your house.)

 

LOL.

I'm not really mad, but I was surprised to find all that junk in there

Here and I thought my daughter was an angel

 

That would look horrible, lol.

 

Well...I was told that you bought that because they needed more toy boxes....right!!??

Roger

 

I'm thinking about opening up the box and putting some speaker cloth on the very inside of the port.

 

Don't EVEN go there!

Our Living Room has been converted to half living room, half toybox, er, play area. We have one of those large toyhouses there (big enough to crawl in), two overflowing toyboxes, and various rideable toys.

Her bedroom has an overflowing toybox, as well.

Its so terribly clutterred. I can't wait till she outgrows it.

 

My niece used to have this hollow hobby horse she could ride. Its mouth opened. See where this is going? One day my sister pulled out NINETEEN socks, a handful of crayons, and a bunch of change.

I second putting speaker cloth on the inside of the port, though. That'll help some. At least, until she finds another place to put stuff.

 

I used to work in a daycare center. It was fun. It rocked getting paid to build lego structures all day.

 

Hahaha , Kids are always funny.

My little cousin last christmas somehow jammed a chicken leg into the VCR , we could'nt get it out without using extreme force. All the time he was giggling away

The moral of the story is , kids can do anything , even though it probably seems impossible..

 

Yeh I was a sh*t when I was a youngster

 

As is that childs god giving right!!!!

Easy for me to say since I don't have any kids yet!!

*runs away REALLY fast*

 

I have an Onkyo 5.1 and it is a nice system. It has an amp for each channel, 600 watts total.

It rattles our house. I have never had the volume above about 60. I have our Kurzweil running through it and that is nice and clean also.

My kid is 19, and she does not contribute to the bass hole...

 

I know all about it...

DVDs in the VCR
Hot Wheels cars in my shoes
TV remote in the trash can

You learn that when somethings missing, to just look in the most unusual places!


-Steve

 

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Grilled Cheese and a plastic army man into the expansion bay of one of my computers.

What can you do, sometimes it's worth the laugh.

how about a 3 month old plum squuuiiissshhh

 

Wait till she puts wax crayons in the dryer...oh boy what a mess that makes

I used to explain to my boys around Christmas about how much they had and some kid less well off than they were wouldn't get anything at Christmas, so how about we donate some toys they no longer use to those kids. They used to like that idea and it kept the level of stuff in the toybox down

 

At least it wasn't a PBJ sandwich; my son stuffed 2 down, 1 down each port, of my subwoofer when he was little.

 

Ouch!

 

Yeah, I had to go clam down a little over that. 2 PBJ's stuffed in to a $600 subwoofer.

 

I have seen pictures of your daughter Adryn, she is an angel.

She probably had a perfectly good reason for putting that stuff in there.

Steve

 

I think I'd prefer a coarse screen; as open as possible and still defeat the crayons. A lot of air pumps through the subwoofer port, and speaker cloth may cause some restriction over a hole that small.

Or paint a really scary mouth around the hole, with fangs. Make her too scared to put her hand inside.

 

All you need to do is rig a microphone up to the speakers on a long lead. Hide somewhere and wait for her to post the next batch of crayons and assorted lego, and then the fun begins. The speaker monster voice 'appears' and makes her promise never to do it again. Make sure you have the video camera running too You'll find her sat in front of the speaker for weeks having conversations trying to get the speaker monster to talk again!!

Did a similar thing with my son when he was little, in a two-way closet. It was so funny. Found him hiding under his bed lol

 

Reminds me of an episode of the Simpsons where Homer is trying to baby-proof the house. He draws a bunny on the electrical outlets with a marker, and Lisa says "but Dad, Maggies not afraid of bunnies!". Homer then says "She will be..."



-Steve

 

Wait till you find your oldest (5) working quietly on one of your guitars with screwdriver. "I was looking at this one daddy and it was broke. So I'm fixing it with this screw driver. But I can't seem to get the other side of this pickup out." Parts every where.....broken strings....oiy.

 

Been there too, when the kids were young. Toast inserted in the V.C.R. slot. (V.C.R.'s are not toasters, even though our looked like one, I’ll admit). Talcum powder all over my prized 8-track tape deck. A prawn stuck inside the speaker box. Now that was just plain nasty - took us ages to work out where that awful stanky was coming from.

 

Wow...you guys have got it all backwards! *I* play the tricks on *my* kids, not the other way around

I bought some new camping gear one year. One item was some tough plastic "glasses". They were kinda frosted semi-transparent green and looked wierd when you swilled your drink in them. My youngest commented on this one time camping. So, in a flash, I told him they were wierd because they were dissolvable glasses and only lasted for 1000 uses. They bit that one good! All the camping trip they were in awe of these glasses. So, camping season went by and all the kit was put away for winter. Come the next summer we were going on a picnic with a friend of mine, so out came all the kit. As we sat down to eat my kids declared "Oh cool...the dissolvable glasses again!" as I lifted them out the bag. My friend was just totally unsure what to make of this, so the kids explained it all to her. We were busting up listening to them. THEN they worked it out.....and I got beaten up lol